DESCRIPTION: Across from the vacant Hotel Western, I spotted a sign Lange photographed on the side of the Owyhee Irrigation District Office. The office is still here, but the boxes that once displayed the names of local merchants are blank. Many buildings in Nyssa are vacant, yet well maintained, like the Hotel Western, where curtains hang behind clean windows and an American flag and patriotic display stand in a first-floor window. The streets and sidewalks of Nyssa are immaculate.